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Are Marketing and Membership at Opposite Poles? Take the Journey to Collaboration

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It’s no longer possible to depend on professional allegiance as a buffer for less-than-stellar service. These are tips to help them make the journey toward collaboration. Integrated planning gives departments, like membership and marketing, a format for collaboration on agendas and goals.

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Are Marketing and Membership at Opposite Poles? Take the Journey to Collaboration

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It’s no longer possible to depend on professional allegiance as a buffer for less-than-stellar service. These are tips to help them make the journey toward collaboration. Integrate Strategy There are plenty of incentives for collaboration. There was a time when associations didn’t think of their members as customers.

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Grow the Human Skills: Critical Thinking, Creativity, Collaboration, and Communication

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The 4Cs or critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and communication complement technology and will serve any organization well in competitive markets. Leaders who promote professional development and education of all kinds also encourage teams to bring an expansive perspective to their work. Don’t be a team in name only.

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10 Reasons to Attend the Collaborative: Virtual Sessions

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The Collaborative: Virtual Sessions , hosted by Classy , is an online conference designed exclusively for nonprofit and social sector professionals. For the second year in a row, the Collaborative: Virtual Sessions is completely free, and completely virtual. 10 Reasons to Attend the Collaborative: Virtual Sessions.

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Lead From the Human Side of Technology

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As a result, IT leaders are called on to share their wisdom with the rest of us, and they are challenged to help us collaborate in ways that are unfamiliar and sometimes uncomfortable. EI skills can help IT professionals take their communications and leadership ability to new levels of effectiveness.

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To Get Close to Members, Follow MarTech Trends

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You can build more collaborative teams. Our own platform,orgWorx connects you to seasoned association professionals. Scan the Landscape Internal collaboration is important, but it is only the beginning. Be an open-minded reader. Of the four bullets listed above, the last two seem to be the most challenging.

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How To Transform Work Relationships From Challenging To Collaborative

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“Very few of us ever learned how to be present with another person, to ignore internal and external noise and distractions, and to connect and converse with others in useful or collaborative ways,” affirm the authors of the new book, Bridge The Gap: Breakthrough Communication Tools To Transform Work Relationships From Challenging To Collaborative.